The Canadian Entomologist Vol 13

k^^ y/iMn icM^cL- o•I•sô•ô•^ ^ ^''^' Return to LIBRARY OF MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY WOODS HOLE MASS Loaned by American Museum of Natural History THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, VOLUME €biitb bj) XTII SHilliiim §aunbers, LONDON, ONTARIO Rev C J S Bethune, M Hope, Ont E B Reed, London, Ont., Bowles, Montreal, Que A., Port and G J ; «» ônbon : PRINTED BY THE FREE PRESS PRINTING COMPANY 1881 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME ASHMEAD, WM H Jacksonville, Florida, BASSETT, H F BELL, JAMES T BEI HUNE, REV, Waterbury, Conn, CAULFIELD, CHAMBERS, CLAYPOLE, COMSTOCK, Belleville, Ont-vrio Port Hope, Ontario C J, S B F V T E W J H COOK, A J COQUILLETT, D DAY, DR L T DODGE, G M DURY, CHAS Montreal, Quebec Covington, Kentucky ., Yellow H W Woodstock Illinois New Haven, Conn Glencoe, Nebraska A HEUSTIS, CAROLINE E HOFFMET.STER, A W " O JOHNSON, JAMES S KELLICOTT, D S LECONTE, DR J L LINTNER, J A MEAD, THEODORE L MOFFAT, J ALSTON MUNDT, A H MURTFELDT, MARY E OSTEN-SACKEN, C R PEABODY, S H HOWARD, C Lansing, Michigan EDWARDS, W H FISH, CHAS FRENCH, G H GOODELL, L, W GROTE, A, R HAGEN, DR, Springs, Ohio, Washington, D L AvoNDALE, Ohio Coalburgh, West Va, Old Town, Maine Carbondale, Illinois Amherst, Mass New Brighton, New York Cambridge, Mass Carleton, St Johns, N B Fort Madison, Iowa Washington, D C Frankford, Penn, Buffalo, New York Philadelphia, Aljjany, New Penn York New SAUNDERS, W (The STRECKER, N TALLANT, W N WILLISTON, DR, S Editor) York Hamilton, Ontario Fairbury, Illinois Kirkwood, St Louis, Mo Heidelberg, Germany Champaign, Illinois London, Ontario Washington, D C London, Ontario W Reading, Mass Columbus, Ohio New Haven, Conn, WORTHINGTON, E REED, RILEY, E C B V C, ' , Chicago, Illinois, Clje VOL faabian LONDON, XIII Entomologist ONT., JANUARY, No i8Si i TO OUR READERS A That the year may bring prosperity in its happy greeting to all one of our members is our sincere wish We enter on our train to every thirteenth year with confidence ; long experience of the sincerity of the friendship and heartiness of support of our many friends and contributors in the past, inspires trusl for the future a trust which, we feel sure, will not — prove misplaced We want the cordial support of all to make our journal for 88 more useful and more widely read than it has ever been before We to hope send in hear from all our old friends and your subscriptions promptly many new ones Please to the Secretary ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS BY THE EDITOR 77/1? This is in spring, Indian Cetonia : Euryomia inda a stout, hairy beetle (fig i) which makes its appearance early iûally towards the end of April or beginning of May, flying about in open fields and about the borders of woods, vvith a loud buzzing sound, resembling that of a bumble bee It belongs to the flower beetles, most of whom live on pollen and the honey of flowers, and are fond of sweets Fig- the I- This insect is of a brownish-gray color, dotted and spotted with blackish and thickly covered with short greenish-yellow hairs It measures half an inch or more in length During summer it disappears, but a second brood during September, comes out in the fall, usually when they may be found feeding on the pollen of Not content upon the sweet sap of plants and trees with this, they attack our finest and most luscious fruits, eating their way into the richest ripening pears and burrowing into the finest peaches so flowers and also deeply that only the tips of their bodies are visible, and in this way spoil- THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST ing the sweet fruit and inducing rapid decay They also attack grapes and other fruits The Abbot Sphinx : This very pretty Sphinx moth has Thynus Abboiii past been very rarely met Canada it seems, however, to be gradually spreading and becomIt was first taken some years a